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We are proud to partner with the Delta Nu Omega Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Society to highlight the impact of literature and art that emerged from the Harlem Renaissance.

Below are books recommended by Delta Nu Omega members. Learn more about this Rochester-based graduate chapter, their service programs, and events at akadno.org.

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Join us for our first co-hosted event, Jump at the Sun: Community Read and Conversation, a virtual discussion of Zora Neale Hurston's auto-biography, Dust Tracks on a Road, led by Storyteller in Residence Almeta Whitis. Register here to join our admission-free conversation on August 21. 

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Classic Fiction of the Harlem Renaissance By William L. Andrews Cover Image

Classic Fiction of the Harlem Renaissance (Abridged / Paperback)

By William L. Andrews
$104.99
ISBN: 9780195081961
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Published: Oxford University Press, USA - May 12th, 1994
The Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance (African American Experience: From Slavery to the Presidency) By Sabina G. Arora (Editor) Cover Image

The Great Migration and the Harlem Renaissance (African American Experience: From Slavery to the Presidency) (Library Binding)

By Sabina G. Arora (Editor)
$35.47
ISBN: 9781680480450
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Published: Rosen Education Service - August 1st, 2015
Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance By Houston A. Baker, Jr. Cover Image

Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance (Paperback)

By Houston A. Baker, Jr.
$28.00
ISBN: 9780226035253
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Published: University of Chicago Press - January 15th, 1989
Beloved Harlem: A Literary Tribute to Black America's Most Famous Neighborhood, From the Classics to The Contemporary By William H. Banks, Jr. Cover Image

Beloved Harlem: A Literary Tribute to Black America's Most Famous Neighborhood, From the Classics to The Contemporary (Paperback)

By William H. Banks, Jr.
$27.00
ISBN: 9780767914789
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Published: Crown - August 2nd, 2005
Harlem Renaissance Artists and Writers (Inspiring Collective Biographies) By Wendy Hart Beckman Cover Image

Harlem Renaissance Artists and Writers (Inspiring Collective Biographies) (Paperback)

By Wendy Hart Beckman
$13.88
ISBN: 9781464402692
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Published: Enslow Publishing - July 16th, 2013
Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and White By Emily Bernard Cover Image

Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and White (Paperback)

By Emily Bernard
$37.00
ISBN: 9780300192520
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Published: Yale University Press - May 31st, 2013
Claude McKay, Rebel Sojourner in the Harlem Renaissance: A Biography By Wayne F. Cooper Cover Image

Claude McKay, Rebel Sojourner in the Harlem Renaissance: A Biography (Paperback)

By Wayne F. Cooper
$25.95
ISBN: 9780807120743
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Published: LSU Press - February 1st, 1996
Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman's Life Unveiled By Thadious M. Davis Cover Image

Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman's Life Unveiled (Paperback)

By Thadious M. Davis
$21.95
ISBN: 9780807120705
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Published: LSU Press - May 1st, 1996
Vicious Modernism: Black Harlem and the Literary Imagination By James De Jongh Cover Image

Vicious Modernism: Black Harlem and the Literary Imagination (Paperback)

By James De Jongh
$46.99
ISBN: 9780521123303
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Published: Cambridge University Press - November 19th, 2009
The Harlem Renaissance: A Historical Exploration of Literature (Historical Explorations of Literature) By Lynn Domina Cover Image

The Harlem Renaissance: A Historical Exploration of Literature (Historical Explorations of Literature) (Hardcover)

By Lynn Domina
$64.00
ISBN: 9781610696494
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Published: Greenwood - November 25th, 2014
Jean Toomer & Harlem Renaissance By Geneviève Fabre (Editor), Michel Feith (Editor) Cover Image

Jean Toomer & Harlem Renaissance (Paperback)

By Geneviève Fabre (Editor), Michel Feith (Editor)
$38.95
ISBN: 9780813528465
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Published: Rutgers University Press - December 1st, 2000
Temples for Tomorrow: Looking Back at the Harlem Renaissance By Geneviève Fabre (Editor), Michel Feith (Editor) Cover Image

Temples for Tomorrow: Looking Back at the Harlem Renaissance (Paperback)

By Geneviève Fabre (Editor), Michel Feith (Editor)
$26.00
ISBN: 9780253214256
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Published: Indiana University Press - September 19th, 2001
Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940 (African American Life) By James V. Hatch (Editor), Leo Hamalian (Editor) Cover Image

Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940 (African American Life) (Paperback)

By James V. Hatch (Editor), Leo Hamalian (Editor)
$31.99
ISBN: 9780814325803
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Published: Wayne State University Press - October 1st, 1996
Pages from the Harlem Renaissance: A Chronicle of Performance (Studies in African and Afro-American Culture #6) By James L. Hill (Editor), Anthony Hill Cover Image

Pages from the Harlem Renaissance: A Chronicle of Performance (Studies in African and Afro-American Culture #6) (Paperback)

By James L. Hill (Editor), Anthony Hill
$51.70
ISBN: 9780820428642
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Published: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi - November 23rd, 2006
Harlem Renaissance By Nathan Irvin Huggins, Arnold Rampersad (Foreword by) Cover Image

Harlem Renaissance (Paperback)

By Nathan Irvin Huggins, Arnold Rampersad (Foreword by)
$19.95
ISBN: 9780195063363
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Published: Oxford University Press, USA - May 2nd, 2007
Voices from the Harlem Renaissance By Nathan Irvin Huggins (Editor) Cover Image

Voices from the Harlem Renaissance (Paperback)

By Nathan Irvin Huggins (Editor)
$24.99
ISBN: 9780195093605
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Published: Oxford University Press, USA - January 26th, 1995
The Big Sea: An Autobiography By Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad (Introduction by) Cover Image

The Big Sea: An Autobiography (Paperback)

By Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad (Introduction by)
$18.00
ISBN: 9780809015498
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Published: Hill and Wang - August 1st, 1993
Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten By Emily Bernard (Editor), Langston Hughes, Carl Van Vechten Cover Image

Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten (Paperback)

By Emily Bernard (Editor), Langston Hughes, Carl Van Vechten
$16.00
ISBN: 9780375727078
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Published: Vintage - February 5th, 2002
Dust Tracks on a Road: A Memoir By Zora Neale Hurston Cover Image

Dust Tracks on a Road: A Memoir (Paperback)

By Zora Neale Hurston
$14.99
ISBN: 9780060854089
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Published: Amistad - January 3rd, 2006
The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance (Cambridge Companions to Literature) By George Hutchinson (Editor) Cover Image

The Cambridge Companion to the Harlem Renaissance (Cambridge Companions to Literature) (Paperback)

By George Hutchinson (Editor)
$29.99
ISBN: 9780521673686
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Published: Cambridge University Press - June 14th, 2007
In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line By George Hutchinson Cover Image

In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line (Hardcover)

By George Hutchinson
$46.00
ISBN: 9780674021808
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Published: Belknap - May 30th, 2006
This Waiting for Love: Helene Johnson, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance By Verner D. Mitchell (Editor), Cheryl A. Wall (Foreword by) Cover Image

This Waiting for Love: Helene Johnson, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance (Paperback)

By Verner D. Mitchell (Editor), Cheryl A. Wall (Foreword by)
$24.95
ISBN: 9781558495722
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Published: University of Massachusetts Press - September 6th, 2006
Black Manhattan By James Weldon Johnson, Zadie Smith (Foreword by) Cover Image

Black Manhattan (Paperback)

By James Weldon Johnson, Zadie Smith (Foreword by)
$16.95
ISBN: 9781632461155
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Published: Ig Publishing - April 6th, 2021
Women Artists of the Harlem Renaissance By Amy Helene Kirschke (Editor) Cover Image

Women Artists of the Harlem Renaissance (Paperback)

By Amy Helene Kirschke (Editor)
$35.00
ISBN: 9781496807960
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Published: University Press of Mississippi - February 2nd, 2016
When Harlem Was in Vogue By David Levering Lewis Cover Image

When Harlem Was in Vogue (Paperback)

By David Levering Lewis
$18.00
ISBN: 9780140263343
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Published: Penguin Books - June 1st, 1997
The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader (Portable Library) By David Levering Lewis (Editor) Cover Image

The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader (Portable Library) (Paperback)

By David Levering Lewis (Editor)
$24.00
ISBN: 9780140170368
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Published: Penguin Classics - June 1st, 1995
The New Negro By Alain Locke Cover Image

The New Negro (Paperback)

By Alain Locke
$19.00
ISBN: 9780684838311
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Published: Touchstone - March 1st, 1999
This Waiting for Love: Helene Johnson, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance By Verner D. Mitchell (Editor), Cheryl A. Wall (Foreword by) Cover Image

This Waiting for Love: Helene Johnson, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance (Paperback)

By Verner D. Mitchell (Editor), Cheryl A. Wall (Foreword by)
$24.95
ISBN: 9781558495722
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Published: University of Massachusetts Press - September 6th, 2006
And Bid Him Sing: A Biography of Countée Cullen By Charles Molesworth Cover Image

And Bid Him Sing: A Biography of Countée Cullen (Hardcover)

By Charles Molesworth
$30.00
ISBN: 9780226533643
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Published: University of Chicago Press - October 1st, 2012
The Entrance Place of Wonders: Poems of the Harlem Renaissance By Daphne Muse, Charlotte Riley-Webb (Illustrator) Cover Image

The Entrance Place of Wonders: Poems of the Harlem Renaissance (Hardcover)

By Daphne Muse, Charlotte Riley-Webb (Illustrator)
$16.95
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ISBN: 9780810959972
Published: Harry N. Abrams - November 1st, 2005
Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance: Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent By Richard Bruce Nugent Cover Image

Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance: Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent (Paperback)

By Richard Bruce Nugent
$27.95
ISBN: 9780822329138
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Published: Duke University Press - May 23rd, 2002
Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 By Jeffrey B. Perry Cover Image

Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 (Paperback)

By Jeffrey B. Perry
$36.00
ISBN: 9780231139113
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Published: Columbia University Press - November 17th, 2010
Critical Essays on James Weldon Johnson: James Weldon Johnson (Twayne's Critical Essays on American Literature) By Kenneth Price (Editor), Lawrence J. Oliver (Editor) Cover Image

Critical Essays on James Weldon Johnson: James Weldon Johnson (Twayne's Critical Essays on American Literature) (Hardcover)

By Kenneth Price (Editor), Lawrence J. Oliver (Editor)
$91.00
ISBN: 9780783800332
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Published: Twayne Publishers - November 21st, 1997
The Sage in Harlem: H. L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s By Charles Scruggs Cover Image

The Sage in Harlem: H. L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s (Paperback)

By Charles Scruggs
$32.00
ISBN: 9781421431383
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Published: Johns Hopkins University Press - December 1st, 2019
Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance By Cherene Sherrard-Johnson Cover Image

Portraits of the New Negro Woman: Visual and Literary Culture in the Harlem Renaissance (Paperback)

By Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
$37.95
ISBN: 9780813539775
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Published: Rutgers University Press - January 29th, 2007
The Novels of the Harlem Renaissance: Twelve Black Writers, 1923-1933 By Amritjit Singh Cover Image

The Novels of the Harlem Renaissance: Twelve Black Writers, 1923-1933 (Paperback)

By Amritjit Singh
$35.95
ISBN: 9780271012087
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Published: Penn State University Press - August 15th, 1976
Paul Robeson: A Life of Activism and Art (Library of African American Biography) By Lindsey R. Swindall Cover Image

Paul Robeson: A Life of Activism and Art (Library of African American Biography) (Paperback)

By Lindsey R. Swindall
$19.95
ISBN: 9781442207943
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Published: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers - September 15th, 2015
The Messenger Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from The Messenger Magazine By Dr. Sondra Kathryn Wilson (Editor), Paul Robeson, Zora Neale Hurston, Wallace Thurman, Dorothy West Cover Image

The Messenger Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays from The Messenger Magazine (Paperback)

By Dr. Sondra Kathryn Wilson (Editor), Paul Robeson, Zora Neale Hurston, Wallace Thurman, Dorothy West
$23.00
ISBN: 9780375755392
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Published: Modern Library - February 8th, 2000
Women of the Harlem Renaissance By Cheryl A. Wall Cover Image

Women of the Harlem Renaissance (Paperback)

By Cheryl A. Wall
$24.00
ISBN: 9780253209801
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Published: Indiana University Press - September 22nd, 1995
The Ideologies of African American Literature: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Nationalist Revolt By Robert E. Washington Cover Image

The Ideologies of African American Literature: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Nationalist Revolt (Hardcover)

By Robert E. Washington
$139.00
ISBN: 9780742509498
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Published: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers - October 3rd, 2001
Harlem Speaks: A Living History of the Harlem Renaissance [With CD] By Cary D. Wintz (Editor) Cover Image

Harlem Speaks: A Living History of the Harlem Renaissance [With CD] (Hardcover)

By Cary D. Wintz (Editor)
$29.95
ISBN: 9781402204364
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Published: Sourcebooks Mediafusion - November 1st, 2006
Harlem Renaissance: Five Novels of the 1920s (LOA #217): Cane / Home to Harlem / Quicksand / Plum Bun / The Blacker the Berry (Library of America Harlem Renaissance Novels Collection #1) By Rafia Zafar (Editor) Cover Image

Harlem Renaissance: Five Novels of the 1920s (LOA #217): Cane / Home to Harlem / Quicksand / Plum Bun / The Blacker the Berry (Library of America Harlem Renaissance Novels Collection #1) (Hardcover)

By Rafia Zafar (Editor)
$35.00
ISBN: 9781598530995
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Published: Library of America - September 1st, 2011
Harlem Renaissance: Four Novels of the 1930s (LOA #218): Not Without Laughter / Black No More / The Conjure-Man Dies / Black Thunder (Library of America Harlem Renaissance Novels Collection #2) By Rafia Zafar (Editor) Cover Image

Harlem Renaissance: Four Novels of the 1930s (LOA #218): Not Without Laughter / Black No More / The Conjure-Man Dies / Black Thunder (Library of America Harlem Renaissance Novels Collection #2) (Hardcover)

By Rafia Zafar (Editor)
$35.00
ISBN: 9781598531015
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Published: Library of America - September 1st, 2011
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